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Government Accountability
5,749 statements about Government Accountability from 501 members since Jan 3, 2025.
Statements per week mentioning Government Accountability, all members, split by party. Democrats stacked first, Republicans after, four to a row. One dot is up to 2 statements. Click a week to set the dates below. May 25, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026.
Most active on Government Accountability · May 25 – Aug 16
- 1DRichard J. DurbinIL23
- 2DAdam B. SchiffCA19
- 3DChris Van HollenMD16
- 4RChuck GrassleyIA13
- 5DCory A. BookerNJ11
- 6DMartin HeinrichNM11
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30 statements
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End Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
Mr. President, Reserving the right to object, this bill would amend the funding statute for the Federal Housing Finance Agency so that the expenses of the inspector general are collected through the annual assessments of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Bank in an amount…
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Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I have to start by noting that President Trump and his cronies are using the White House to commit political fraud and corruption on an epic scale. This is unprecedented levels of corruption. The rot runs deep. And to allow for that massive Trump…
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End Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
Mr. President, I rise today to pass my bill which would ensure the Federal Housing Finance Agency's inspector general can do its job to protect the integrity of our housing market. The inspector general is an independent official who investigates fraud, waste, and abuse in government Agencies. We…
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Mr. President, on corruption, Senate Democrats have also been unrelenting in exposing Trump's unprecedented corruption. Senate Republicans have aided and abetted Trump's efforts to rob the American people and enrich himself every step of the way. The Trump family has profited $4 billion off the…
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End Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
Mr. President, I wonder if you have heard the story of Jason Rezaian. Jason was a Washington Post reporter--an Iranian American--who was stationed in Tehran and reporting for the Washington Post on the goings-on of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2014, he was arrested by the secret police and…
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Mr. President, if there is one thing that quickly became clear at the start of the 119th Congress, it was that anything we were going to accomplish for hard-working Americans we were going to have to accomplish alone. There is always some partisanship in Congress--and healthy disagreement--but it…
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Nomination of Kasdin Miller Mitchell (Executive Session)
Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm Kasdin Mitchell to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Mitchell's record demonstrates that she prioritizes corporate interests over people. In private practice, she has represented Big Tech companies and industrial…
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PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT OF 2026--Motion to Proceed
Mr. President, yesterday marked a really incredible milestone for the citizens of Memphis, TN. Now, it was 1 year--1 year ago from yesterday--that President Trump signed the memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force. It is really almost impossible to overstate how much the task force has…
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Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
Madam President, yesterday, I voted to proceed to debate on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, legislation to provide oversight for the digital asset industry. This is an important bill to protect investors, provide clear rules of the road, and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. However, I…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Session)
Mr. President, I rise today to speak to the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. Over the last several days, I have heard from lots of people sharing their views on this nomination, and most of the time it is clear Mr. Blanche has become a referendum on how people feel about President…
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Mr. President, later today, I hope the Senate will vote to confirm the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. I support his nomination, and I urge my colleagues to vote for him. Mr. Blanche is nominated to one of the most important offices in our country, and he has shown that he is up…
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Federal Building Threat Notification Act
Mr. President, I will shortly ask for unanimous consent to pass the Federal Building Threat Notification Act, a bipartisan legislation that I introduced with Senators Lankford and Ernst to improve emergency communications in Federal buildings. This bill was voted unanimously out of committee…
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Mr. President, this week, I had the honor of voting for Todd Blanche as he was coming out of the Judiciary Committee and advancing that nomination. Having worked with him over the past year or so, I think that there is no one better suited to serve President Trump's mission of enforcing the rule of…
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There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolutions en bloc. Mr. President, this resolution concerns a request for evidence related to an investigation of an individual who made a threat against Senator Elizabeth Warren in a communication sent to the Senator's office. The…
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Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 5345 (Executive Session)
Mr. President, reserving the right to object, on the merits, there are no substantive objections to this legislation. However, we do have a challenge between the two Chambers of Congress. The Senate is doing its work. The Senate is taking up important pieces of legislation, reaching bipartisan…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Session)
Mr. President, the Senate is currently considering the nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General of the United States. The Attorney General is one of the most important positions in the U.S. Government. Not only does the Attorney General serve as a trusted member of the President's…
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U.S. Department of Justice (Executive Session)
Mr. President, Todd Blanche's Department of Justice continues to let criminals off the hook so long as they are loyal to Donald Trump. Yesterday, Trump's DOJ forced a judge to throw out the charges against eight members of the radical extremist Oath Keepers, who were convicted of seditious…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I am here today to join the chorus of opposition to Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General of the United States. Things that Republicans have purported to care about are disastrous with this guy. Pam Bondi put the blame directly on Todd Blanche for the Department of Justice's…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I rise today to oppose the nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney General of the United States. The Attorney General is supposed to be the people's lawyer, someone whose loyalty is to the Constitution and to the rule of law, not to any one person--even the President of the…
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S. Res. 817 (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the en bloc nominations process and in opposition to almost all of these nominees. While the en bloc process unfortunately means that I have to cast a single vote for or against all 74 nominees today, I do want to reaffirm my strong support of both Democratic…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I listened to the presentation by my colleague from Maryland and agree with everything he said. And the heart of the question is whether the person who has been nominated to serve as Attorney General will serve the people of the United States or will he serve the President to whom he…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
``I am his lawyer.'' ``I am his lawyer'' is what Todd Blanche said in the course of his confirmation hearing for the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate. "I'm his lawyer,'' meaning, I am Donald Trump's lawyer. Now, admittedly, he had no intention of saying it that way. He had no intention of…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I was never going to come out here and support Todd Blanche for a long list of reasons. I do believe he is one of the most corrupt Justice Department officials in our country's history, for one. He was Trump's former personal lawyer, and it seems that he never quit. The only…
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Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar)
Mr. President, I am nearing the end of my Senate term, and I am reflecting on some historic events which I have witnessed at this table, at this desk. One of the most historic I remember--and specifically the date--January 6, 2021. The reason why that day was important was that the votes all across…
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Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 2069 (Executive Calendar)
Reserving the right to object, I understand that my colleague from Iowa is deeply interested in getting this legislation passed, and I appreciate the diligence and effort she has devoted to this legislation. This is a good bill. I support her bill. Indeed, I voted for her bill, as did every other…
Sources: members’ press releases from their official websites (since the 119th Congress began (Jan 3, 2025)) and the Congressional Record (since Aug 2026). Statements are tagged to Government Accountability by AI reading of the full text. Quotes are shown only when they match the archived source text word for word.